Show MINE OPERATOR KillS William E A Innes Nevada Prospector Commits Suicide as Result of Spree OWNED VALUABLE VALUABLE CLAMS CLAIMS ENDS LIFE BY SUSPEND SUSPENDERS ERS ABOUT NECK ECK I B i A Innes lanes a wealthy mine r from Goldfield committed sui sul udo id yesterday in a room roam on un Vest West Third K futh uth in this city Ills His body wan found at ut 1 I yesterday y afternoon H Ii t I suspenders tied tightly about his hits ni mik i k kHo Ho lie hind 1111 evidently taken the suspenders eqI 1 tied them about all ut his neck In a single sins not and then thon deliberately pulled the tho th rid I tighter lIght r and tighter until he lie strangled to lii death In one otte hand was found a pen nen pencil cil C ii but hut no rio note not was found that would in Inin inus in ii us way wa account for his rash nishi act Innes camo cume to the rooming house in ill he committed suicide Wednesday hy and nud engaged a room paying maying Ila ing for it in hi ad IId adu 1 u luc lie He said saW he lie had just come caine from Pueblo 1 and that ho hp was as on hits hit way W I to oldfield to look after his mining lulling inter f f ts there re lie He told of af hits his prospects and Id rl 1 that lint ho hI was wag worth several hundred thousand dollars Was Drinking Heavily ll lb I had bad been bet n drinking heavily since his vat al In this city ity and ami Thursday even OlO eveni i iJ v g returned to the hotel rather lie He did not hot go to the lie SlIme same rown mo in l had the night before but secured an antl it etler tl or one nile He lie went to the room about 7 o clock and then sent out aut for fur two bot Jot botties ties of af champagne ch l which he ho drank At t 1 10 A that evening he rang for some ice ile wahl r That I was the last lut time tune he lie wat was wal t 1 i 1 aUf alice noon neon when the chambermaid w lit to ills His door she found it locked on ont t tIC tte if inside und nail the key left in the door dour Ihrie was no response to a knock knod on tl the thc p door and finally the th porter entered the tle room through a I window There he the ghastly form of u mu man par parti ti ii tilI dressed lying dead on the th bed bel The K 1 ix wIth he hat hail killed kille f 5 J If had cut a II deep dep furrow in his hi neck a 1 he ho had luul evidently been dead d d severn severa 11 IT Body Taken in Charge The hc police were notified anti and an 1 they in int Int t tn in notified Acting Coroner Dana Dalla T Smith who ewed iwed the remains and or ur them removed to the undertaking T y ims OIS of E F G ODonnell r ng the tho th mans effects were wore ri i i I l a i draft for HI l V from front the Mer Ier Mert t l mis Ints Bank of Pueblo on an the National Bank Bunk of New York Cit City This he had bad left with the landlady of the tilE room roum rooming ing irig house to keep for him hini saying that he been drinking ing anti and feared that he might lose it He had been drinking heavily iH ily iv for far about six months Th The only other oilier money found faund on Innes limes was about 2 in inc inC c ange alige I Holds Valuable Claims V number of papers and legal I al doci dO II i I I II JW filE including locations lo of claims and dds were among his property shout shon Nhu I iS Fg j that he lie II had large holdings in Gold God Goldfield GoldfiEld field Tonopah Ton pah Ely EI Beatty Batt and other othe ath Nevada Inada mining districts His Ills papers al also o u showed lOwed that he had hud b ben en commissioned by bya b ba a company of af Pueblo business men to go goen goen U en nL a t prospecting trip through Nevada H Ih I receipt lx book hoak ok showed that he had been beenK K guru n 11 on Nov No 20 Y U by this company compan f 1 expenses on his Nevada trip There Thereta Therea ta a nothing In any al of the papers to nh th hot t had become of this money A appears plausible is that Innes limes this money mune in Salt Lake and ulie Je If fact that LInt he In could give no account kg for it might establish h the motive motle for fort fortl t tl if j icide A number of maps of o various arious mining and amid an reports Jf por of prospecting trips tripe trl oat d as far back hack as 1904 I as a well eil as all a number of telegrams and letters l re reK K Erding the tM sale of af mining st sto tk k were a alo o found in the dead mans alie Relatives in Los Angeles Angele On letter was wai found from Frank O 0 a brother who lives at or East 1 street Los Angeles t This letter jf Inne lune father and m mother ther win wh Ih hI jt at atLo Los Loi Angeles and a brother C harl who lives in San Pedro Frank FrankO O 0 lanes Innes s was notified by wire vire of his h death d th but up Hi I to a H late hour morning no had b been en received rece oo Tl at Pueblo were also noti not fir 1 of If f the tI suicide was a man of about 1 years vears of ar jg cg 8 well dressed sod and anti to all appearances a a prosperous mine operator A hank bank hook book hooko o C I the tho th hank bank of John S Cook Co Gold GoldI fi fl I Id 11 tl showed that at one oue time lime Innes hal hai hald haid d i sited Hl in Ir ii that hank bank about all of ofT T Hob had bo iOPU hn n checked out In lii Ina a pocket bk found with the l bank ank book hook was a at t kot to Goldfield Evidence of oj Much Wealth Th ih T he name nam of W V R It Gibson Goldfield R is s signed to several telegrams tend find oTter communications relative e to mining in III that section of Nevada re was every overy in indication in all the pa pr Fr found that lanes Innes was the po f f valuable mining property in iu several severa F fi of af Nevada In one book there thieve thereS Its w s found an accurate resume of the min mm Kg J V g situation in Nevada Nf vada with the loca locatIon lion tIon and Md description of the lending leading nun min mm 1 e companies operating op in that state No o action will b bo taken by I the coroner coron a 3 to t the holding of af an autopsy or an aim in inn n n until information is received from the 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